Singh's screen tale will give a modern twist to the classic and have Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs seek revenge on the murderous Queen for killing her father.

“Julia was our first and only choice to play the Queen," stroked Ryan Kavanaugh, CEO of the film studio Relativity. "She is an icon, and we know that she will make this role her own in a way that no one else could.”

Roberts' has laid claim to the title of fairest of them all since starring as the prostituting Pretty Woman with Richard Gere in 1990. She went on to win an Oscar for her 2001 performance in Erin Brokovich, and most recently appeared as a spiritually- awaking divorcee in Eat, Pray, Love.